String Phenomenology at the LHC

Abstract

We consider extensions of the standard model based on open strings ending on D-branes, with gauge bosons due to strings attached to stacks of D-branes and chiral matter due to strings stretching between intersecting D-branes. Assuming that the fundamental string mass scale is in the TeV range and the theory is weakly coupled, we review possible signals of string physics at the Large Hadron Collider.

10 pages, 3 eps figures. Solicited Brief Review prepared for Modern Physics Letters A; typographical error in equations (8), (9), (10), and (11) has been corrected